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twitter.com/temponew • facebook/temponews • Email:temponews@comcast.net • Jan. 7 - Jan. 13, 2016 • TEMPO News • Page 3
EDITORIALS • COLUMNISTS • EDITORIALS • COLUMNISTS
Continued on Page 10
Nothing Matters
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BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA COLUMNIST
Trump and the Black Vote
“Black Lives Matter”,
“Black Lives Matter” is
a phrase that is heard a
lot these days. In fact,
the “Black Lives Mat-
ter” movement, as it’s
called, has inspired a
bunch of spinoffs like
All Lives Matter, Better
Matters and The Gantt
Report’s own phrase
“Cat Lives Matter”!
To some Black think-
ers, Black intellectuals
and Black philosophers,
the Black Lives Mat-
ter movement is little
more than a collection of
marchers and marches.
I’m old enough to have
seen this type of thing
before. There was the
Abolitionist Movement
that opposed slavery
that was replaced by
slave-type Jim Crow
laws. There was a “Free-
dom Riders” movement
but Black folks are far
from freedom in many
ways. There was the
famous “Civil Rights
Movement” but things
still aren’t “civil” and
Black people still don’t
have some rights that
white citizens have like
economic, political, ju-
dicial due process and
other rights. There was
even an “Occupy Wall
Street Movement” that
came and went like a
thief in the night! The
Florida-based “Dream
Defenders” appeared
on a lot of talk shows
but their dreams re-
sulted in nightmares!
One way to describe
what is going on is to
say “Nothing Matters”!
We need to plan
Black progress. We
need to plan Black sur-
vival. We need to plan
for better Black lives!
Who decided that the
best way for Black peo-
ple to deal with life situa-
tions was to march, pray
and lock arms with dev-
ils and enemies and sing
“We Shall Overcome”?
Since Dr. Martin
Luther King Junior
marched and prayed,
young people have been
led to believe that’s
all they need to do.
Don’t disrespect Dr.
King like that! King
marched for equal
rights and justice. King
marched for better
salaries and working
conditions for Black
workers. King marched
to oppose unjust wars
and world imperialism.
If you want to march
to get the Mayor of Chi-
cago to resign why don’t
you march to get every
red necked, klansman,
neo-nazi or skin head in
elected office to resign?
Politicians like Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
are in office in every
city and every state
in the United States!
Why don’t Black Lives
Matter marchers march
down to the ‘hood, reg-
ister every eligible Black
resident to vote and edu-
cate them about why
they should vote out
devilish candidates. in-
cluding both Democratic
and Republican politi-
cal devils, and vote in
candidates that put them
first and sponsor and
pass legislation that will
benefit Black people?
Why don’t they march
to the ‘hood and pa-
tronize Black busi-
nesses that hire Black
workers and if there
are none, the marchers
should start Black busi-
nesses of their own?
Why don’t they march
to the ‘hood and patrol
Black neighborhood
streets to stop our people
from killing each other
so our community can be
a safe place for children
to play and for seniors to
sit on their front porches?
Why don’t marchers
pool their money and fi-
nancial resources togeth-
er? Why don’t they clean
their neighborhoods up,
help Blacks that are
homeless, help Blacks
that are disabled or read
more Black books ?
Perhaps it’s because
marches will be tele-
vised. There are no news
reports about organiz-
ing your community,
starting Black banks, or
uniting with Black peo-
ple around the world!
The year 2015 brought
tectonic changes in sev-
eral areas of our lives
that the media has to-
tally ignored or under-
reported. Too often me-
dia, both left and right,
only talk to people who
view the world from the
same prism as they do.
The same argument
can be made about the
political establishment
from both parties. There
is a total disconnect be-
tween the establishment
of both parties and their
respective bases. This
disconnect is personified
in the presidential candi-
dacies of both business-
man Donald Trump and
Independent Vermont
senator Bernie Sanders.
To this end, the Re-
publican establish-
ment is by far the big-
gest loser of 2015.
They told Republican
voters that if they raised
and contributed money
to help them gain con-
trol of congress, they
would shrink the size
of government, defund
Obama’s amnesty for
illegals, and stop these
trade deals that would
subjugate America’s
sovereignty to interna-
tional organizations.
We helped Republi-
cans to gain control of
congress and then they
quickly began to do the
moonwalk on every is-
sue they promised us
they would fight for.
Then along comes
Donald Trump launch-
ing his presidential cam-
paign based on all the
promises the Republi-
can congress made and
broke. The Republican
congress created Don-
ald Trump’s candidacy.
Now the same Repub-
lican establishment that
created Trump is active-
ly trying to destroy and
sabotage his campaign.
Message to the establish-
ment: Trump is not the
problem. Republican
voters don’t want am-
nesty for illegals, they
don’t want increased
debt ceilings, they don’t
want more H1-B visas,
they don’t want all these
trade deals, they don’t
want more continuing
resolutions (CRs); and
they don’t want omni-
bus budget bills passed,
just to name a few.
However impolitic
you may think Trump’s
verbiage is; he makes
voters believe he is sin-
cere in what he says.
He projects strength
and leadership and has
proven that he is will-
ing to take it hard to
Bill & Hillary Clinton.
Trump has the uncanny
ability to connect with
the average voter and
tap into what they are
feeling at any given mo-
ment. Most of the other
candidates wait on polls
to tell them what to think
and what to believe; but
Trump somehow always
seems to just instinctive-
ly know what is going
on within the electorate.
If the establishment
would spend more time
fighting for the values
that they campaigned
on; there would be
no Trump candidacy.
Trump is totally re-
writing the playbook on
how to run for president.
He is the only candidate
to actively engage with
the Black community
in any meaningful way
during the primary. He
has even gone so far as to
hire Blacks and then put
them on TV representing
his campaign. WOW,
what a novel thought!
Because of Trump’s
business background, I
think he understands that
the Black community
is open to a message
of economic empower-
ment; I think he under-
stands how to penetrate
or create a new mar-
ket, i.e. the Black vote.
Most of the other can-
didates are too busy lis-
tening to their pollsters
and other establishment
figures tell them that
going after the Black
vote is a waste of time.
As I have written re-
peatedly, Blacks are
looking for the Republi-
can Party to give them a
reason to vote for them,
but only Trump has
even remotely began
to see this possibility.
Republicans have
absolutely no idea of
the chasm that exists
between Blacks and
Hillary Clinton. She
doesn’t have the connec-
tion to Blacks like Bill
Clinton and to a lesser
extent, Barak Obama.
She will attempt to
scare Blacks into voting
for her by telling them
that Republicans are rac-
ists, etc., etc., etc. She
will also pay Jesse Jack-
son and Al Sharpton to do
their dirty work for her.
Hillary has no substan-
tive track record to take
to the Black community.
She shows up for all the
right symbolic events
in the Black commu-
nity, but has done noth-
ing of any substance.
She insults the Black
community by equating
homosexual entitlements
to Civil Rights. She
supports amnesty for il-
legals though everyone
knows it will devastate
the Black community.
The real sign of what
these Republican presi-
dential candidates think
about the Black vote
will be shown in two
weeks when the na-
tion celebrates Martin
Luther King’s birth-
day on January 18.
If a candidate only
issues a perfunctory
press statement, then
you know that cam-
paign is not serious
about the Black vote.
Each campaign should
do an event on King’s
birthday within the
Black community and
give a major policy
speech on their vision
for Civil Rights should
they become president.
I will be stunned if
any campaign does
anything substantive
on King’s holiday.
In order for any Repub-
lican to win the White
House, he will have to
think outside the box
and be able to get at least
15% of the Black vote.
The only person I see
willing to invest the time,
money and effort to do
this is Donald Trump.